THE SUFFRAGETTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

RICHARDSON SENTENCED CARES MORE FOR JUSTICE THAN ART. “ NATION EITHER DEAD OR ASLEEP.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, March 12. Mary Richardson, the suffragette who was arrested for mutilating the Velasquez picture of Venus in the National Art Gallery, has been sentenced to sis months’ imprisonment. The magistrate commented on the anomaly in the law which provided six months’ imprisonment for damaging a work of art and eighteen months for smashing windows. When Richardson appeared at Bow street Police Court she was in a weak condition through hunger-striking. She said she had been an art student, but cared more for justice than art. The nation was either dead or asleep, as women had vainly knocked at the doors of Ministers, Archbishops, and even the King. Nora Smyth, a sculptor, was fined £ls for striking a police sergeant on the neck with a drumstick during a demonstration at Bow street. A suffragette deputation waited on Glasgow magistrates and protested at the brutal treatment by the police of Mrs Pankhurst. The magistrates ordered the Chief Constable to submit a report. Helen Crawford was sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment for smashing the army recruiting office -windows in Glasgow as a protest against Mrs Pankhurst’s arrest. A mansion at Stewarton was fired by suffragettes as a protest against the arrest of Sirs Pankhurst. MORE SEVERITY WANTED. SUFFRAGETTES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STARVE. LONDON, March 12. There is a widespread demand for more severity i towards militant suffragettes, some letters suggesting that they should bo allowed to starve. .* £SOO FOR SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES. ■ (Received March 13, 10.30 p.m.) * LONDON, March 13. Edward, son of Sir Alraroth Wright, has bequeathed' to the National Women’s Suffrage Societies the sum of £SOO. y SOUTH AFRICAN BILL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright CAPETOWN, March 13. In the Legislative Assembly, the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill was read for the first time by 62 votes to 30. 1